What was the last film you watched?

[mrcharly-YHT]

Iron Man 3

That was dire even by hollywood standdards.

I'm curious, did you like other films in the Avengers franchise?

I saw it today and thoroughly enjoyed it, thought it was way better than 2. Possibly because of Shane Black's touch.

It is better than 2.

It is poor compared to 1

Yes I enjoyed the other films in the franchise. I guess the whole 'islamic terrorist threaten  our american way of life' schtick got up my nostrils too much.

[fuzzy]

Avengers Assemble. Rather fun and some laugh out loud bits.

Watched it last night on Blu Ray.

None too shabby.

As you say, some laugh ot loud bits.

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Hulk- "Puny God" 

Another Hulk bit- where he and Thor are standing side by side (some time after their disagreement).

Hulk looks at Thor- Thor looks at Hulk- obvious tomes of grudging respect- Hulk sucker punches Thor off the screen. 

[fuzzy]

Iron Man 3

That was dire even by hollywood standdards.

I'm curious, did you like other films in the Avengers franchise?

I saw it today and thoroughly enjoyed it, thought it was way better than 2. Possibly because of Shane Black's touch.

It is better than 2.

It is poor compared to 1

Yes I enjoyed the other films in the franchise. I guess the whole 'islamic terrorist threaten  our american way of life' schtick got up my nostrils too much.

My take on the franchise so far (not yet seen IM3)

Iron Man- a very enjoyable film with excellent portrayal by Hugh of Tony Stark. Jeff Bridges is very good as Obidiah Stone. Gets the psycho bit off pat.

The Hulk- I had only seen bits of earlier Hulk films so had not really got the back story in full (Holywood version as opposed to the Bill Bixby version). Ed Norton was a good Bruce Banner. Nice use of locations as well.  I also have a bit of a soft spot for Liv Tyler so the film was bound to get a bit of a vote from me.

IM2- good story development but not as good as IM1.

Thor- for my tastes, the best film of the franchise so far. My cup of tea precisely. Angry aliens, Superhero's with god like power, otherworldy locations, Anthony Hopkins, Rene Russo and Natalie Portman.

Captain America- An OK film. Not brilliant but quite watchable. A tad too patriotic but then, what should I expect from a film with this title. The Hydra line had visual similarities to Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow, a film which some slated but I quite enjoyed.

Avengers Assemble- as per my previous post.

[Pickled Onion]

44 inch chest.

Disappointing. Some excellent dialogue, well acted, but despite being promising a bit of an overall fail. It's like a theatre play, in fact mostly shot in a single location. But if you're going to make a film, then use the medium, otherwise it might as well be a play. In fact, it would have been really good on the radio, but as a film it was a waste of time.

That is almost word-for-word what my Grandad said about Les Mis.

 

The swear-word count is a bit different though!

[mrcharly-YHT]

Spoilers abound

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You seriously want to read this? I did say spoilers

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What spoiled this for me?
   
Well, Iron Man 1, you get the immoral genius alchy playboy having his eyes opened. He starts to care for someone, knows them for a few days, sees them die. It changes his life, his attitude, he nearly destroys his company over it (ceases making weapons). Then he gets mad, builds the suit and starts standing up for the small oppressed people.
   
IM3?

He sees an ex gf die in front of him and looks a bit upset. Then Pepper falls to a fiery death

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except she isn't dead

and he's a bit more upset.

Excuse me?  Where is the heartfelt horror, the anger that you saw in IM1?  In this movie he has a punch up with the bad guy and looks a little angry.

Then there is the whole 'nothings been the same since new york, I'm seeing things'. It's suggest that he has PTSD, but as anyone who has read the comics (sorry 'graphic novels') knows, this is the leak-over from the suit systems and the start of IM integrating everything into his nervous system.

But that thread fizzles out. Utterly.

The Mandarin?  He's supposed to have mysterious magic powers (actually alien technology) from rings on his fingers. Instead he's a genetic experiment/tampering.

There are some good bits in this film but I wasn't impressed.

[CAMRAMan]

Hotel Transylvania. A vampires/humans moral tale for kids. The kids loved it. I didn't.

[Jaded]

Avengers Assemble. Rather fun and some laugh out loud bits.

Watched it last night on Blu Ray.

None too shabby.

As you say, some laugh ot loud bits.

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Hulk- "Puny God" 

Another Hulk bit- where he and Thor are standing side by side (some time after their disagreement).

Hulk looks at Thor- Thor looks at Hulk- obvious tomes of grudging respect- Hulk sucker punches Thor off the screen. 

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"He's adopted"

 

[pcolbeck]

Failure to Launch - Romantic comedy with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey

Well it was 2:00 in the morning and I was alone a hotel room with limited TV channels and couldn't sleep. Mildly amusing. Zooey Deschanel as Ms Parker's room mate was good value though.

[redshift]

IM3.

Loud, fast and tasteless.  Better than 2, not as good as 1, for (amongst other) reasons MrC has outlined above in his spoilerified paras.

The end is a bit of a mess.  The post-sig is amusing, but unlike previous ones it doesn't add to the wider Marvel Universe, so it's not a must-see if you need to catch your bus.

Having said that, I kind of enjoyed it. 

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The trend of women being killed for no readily apparent reason except to satisfy the ego of $BadGuy (c.f. Skyfall) is a means of trying to shock the unshockable audience, who have now grown so used to violence and casual death-dealing that I think directors are trying to find a last-resort method, and misogyny is the in thing.  Actually, Joss Whedon does it so much better in Avengers by killing Phil Coulson - you've known him for three or four films before it happens, and he's not just a red shirt.  Whedon has previous with this method, and it's far more effective.  Just a thought.

[LindaG]

Failure to Launch - Romantic comedy with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey

Well it was 2:00 in the morning and I was alone a hotel room with limited TV channels and couldn't sleep. Mildly amusing. Zooey Deschanel as Ms Parker's room mate was good value though.

Not the worst romcom in the world.

[ian]

I usually cannot remember movies watched in flight. Really, they flit away like dreams for some reason, the moment I get off the plane all memory of what I just watched scatters. However, to thwart the mockery of my wife, I took a note of them this time.

Django Unchained. Seen before, and still 90 minutes too long, and the cartoon gore was a bit unpalatable and tiresome (maybe I'm getting old). Despite being the core character, Django was strangely one-note. Ah, it's OK, but like the last couple of Tarantino films, too much style, too little substance, and a flabby attitude to editing. It's OK to leave something on the cutting room floor. Still better by about five hundred times than Inglourious Basterds and it did fill half a flight, even if there were a few moments spent scanning the Sahara below for camels (none spotted).

Cloud Atlas. Hmm. Rather laboured and pretentious. I've not read the book, but I assume it tried to channel the literary style. Leastways it felt like that. It managed to hang onto my attention, but it was all a bit meh in the end.

Seven Psychopaths. Hmm, not sure there were seven either. Entertaining, if rather obvious and contrived.

Argo. Didn't think I'd like this, but it was actually quite good and rather suspenseful, especially the airport scene, despite the fact that you know the ending. I give it extra points for that. Only slightly spoiled by the elbow of the large person next to me continually changing the volume.

[Hillbilly]

Beasts of the Southern Wild. 

I thought I'd give it a go
Based on comments below
Turns out it's not my cup of tea
Hey ho,
if you don't see
You don't know.

Adrian Mole age 39 3/4

[ian]

IM3 (in rather pointless 3D).

Also loved it. I don't do the it-must-be-faithful-to-the-comic (oops graphic novel) thing. The one liners were amusing and there was plenty of reckless boom-bang, all the more impressive for being on an Imax screen.

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and everyone knew our Gwyneth couldn't die!

[Littlesox]

Failure to Launch - Romantic comedy with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey

Well it was 2:00 in the morning and I was alone a hotel room with limited TV channels and couldn't sleep. Mildly amusing. Zooey Deschanel as Ms Parker's room mate was good value though.

Not the worst romcom in the world.

Remember that old KitKat eadvert from the 80's where the punky band audition for the record company exec and he says "You can't sing, you can't play and you look awful - you'll go a long way"

I think that's what happened with SJP. I just don't get it. My mate thinks she is a goddess.

I think she has a face like a horse and acts like a wooden plank.

Still, as the man said, she's gone a long way.

[mrcharly-YHT]

I think she has a face like a horse and acts like a wooden plank.

SJP


Afghan hound

[interzen]

Star Trek.

I've been holding off watching it because I find JJ Abram's 'style' to be intensely irritating, and he doesn't disappoint here. A very good movie spoiled by gratuitous 'special' effects ; I now want track Abrams down and hit him repeatedly over the head until he forgets what lens-flare is.

Having recently watched 'Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle', seeing John Cho as Sulu was a bit of a mind-screw

[LindaG]

Green Zone

Cospiracy theorists wet dream?

Not a bad film TBH. Matt Damon is a reasonable action movie lead.

I thought it was very good.  The first part of the film showed what 'professional soldier' means, which I got a lot out of.  And I think we all know the conspiracy weren't no dream.  I don't like violent films, and this was violent, but none of the violence was gratuitous in the context of the plot.

[Littlesox]

I think she has a face like a horse and acts like a wooden plank.

SJP


Afghan hound

Spot on !

Talk about lookey-likey

I stand corrected. SJP - Face like an Afghan Hound

[LindaG]

The Accidental Tourist.

Again.

It's a beautiful film, and the longer I live the more this film gives me.

One of many things that I wouldn't have discovered without Crusty.

[Woofage]

Remember Me, with Robert Pattinson (Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the main character in Twilight) and Pearce Brosnan.

Has a sad start

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and a sad end but the bit in the middle is OK.

[Wascally Weasel]

Thor - been making my way through the Avengers franchise from the start again.  Iron Man 2 was a lot better than I remembered and the post credit bit at the end of Thor makes the start of Avengers make a bit more sense (had forgotten it by the time I saw Avengers).

[Littlesox]

Just watched Traffic.

Highly recommended.

Don't be put off by the fact that it stars Mr & Mrs Zeta Jones.

Dennis Quaid was excellent (as usual).

Top notch !

[Chris S]

The Silence of the Lambs.

It's a while since I watched it. I forgot what a supremely creepy and Most Excellent performance Anthony Hopkins gives.

Jeez - everyone looks so young!

[Flynn]

Badlands with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek*. I love this film, it captures the atmosphere beautifully, and the them tune - Gassenhauer by Carl Orff - is an eternal favourite.

Discovered she is now 63. I. Feel. Old.

[interzen]

Napoleon Dynamite.

Deeply, deeply strange film.